If Britain Had Fallen: The Real Nazi Occupation Plans

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Summary: An interesting look at what might have been.
Review: This book essentially consists of educated speculation about what might have happened had Nazi Germany successfully invaded and occupied Great Britain. The first portion of the book consists of an imaginary scenario in which the German "Field Greys" successfully stage landings in Kent and other locations on the British Isles. The author does a creditable job of arguing that such an event was at least possible, if not something the Germans could have accomplished easily. As is known by all, such success was dependent upon defeat of the RAF by the Luftwaffe, and the author certainly explains this.

The book then shifts to what the occupation would have been like, and mainly examines life in the occupied Channel Islands (small British island possessions which the Germans did successfully occupy) and prognosticates as to how the Germans would have conducted an occupation of the entire British Isles. Some intriguing questions emerge. Would the Nazi regime truly have carried out its written plans to evacuate the entire young male population of Britain to camps on the Continent? This would have involved at least 12 million young men, and would have constituted a stupendous act of genocide. Although the Nazi regime certainly showed itself capable of such acts of inhumanity, the author argues that sheer matters of practicality probably would have caused a softening in such draconian plans. Other similar interesting details abound in what is probably the most detailed look ever at a scenario that the world averted by all too narrow a margin.

This is a readable book, and in my opinion a very honest and authentic one. If this subject is of interest to you, don't pass it up.